Sunday, December 14, 2025

Ten police employees fired in Georgia for leaking information

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One of the policemen sent information to National Movement politician Givi Targamadze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–An employee of the Georgian Interior Ministry was sacked Thursday because he allegedly had been handing over secret information to parliament member Givi Targamadze from the National Movement.

Nine other police employees were also fired

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Convicted murderer may be free one day after president converts sentence

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TBILISI, DFWatch–President Margvelashvili on Thursday converted the sentence of a man so he will no longer need to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The head of the president’s pardon commission Zviad Koridze said the most serious crime the prisoner

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Every third woman in Georgia has experienced domestic abuse

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From left to right: Inga Popovaite, Nana Chabukiani and Salome Chagelishvili. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Every third woman in Georgian has been victim of domestic abuse, but it is not socially accepted to discuss it outside the family.

We sat down to talk about the problem with Salome Chagelishvili from Anti-Violence Network of Georgia (AVNG), an

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Georgian and Russian diplomats clash over new South Ossetia treaty

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Davit Dondua. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian and Georgian diplomats meeting in Geneva for regular talks clashed over a new treaty Russia signed yesterday with the breakaway region South Ossetia.

At the latest round of talks, which ended on Wednesday, Georgia brought up the

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South Ossetia signs treaty on 'alliance and integration' with Russia

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Leonid Tibilov (left) and Vladimir Putin. (kremlin.ru)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The leader of South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia, was in Moscow on Wednesday and signed a new treaty on alliance and integration with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Georgia, EU, NATO and the United States protested against

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Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan launch geopolitically important pipeline project

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Ilham Aliyev, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The presidents of Georgia, Turkey and Azerbaijan have agreed to start construction of a natural gas pipeline which will bypass Russia and reduce Europe’s energy dependence on Russia.

The ceremony was held in Kars, a Turkish city near

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